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Carl Sagan - A Thousand Years of Darkness

submitted by Spiff

1 decade 7 years 8 months ago

In this excerpt from the final episode of Sagan's 'Cosmos,' he discusses why the momentous discoveries of the ancient world were unable to prevent the dark ages from virtually banishing scientific thought for a millennium, and how the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge, the great library of Alexandria, met its regrettable end. A sobering statement on what ignorance, apathy and fanaticism can do if left unchallenged.

17 Comments

mlx

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Monday 23rd April 2007 (promotion called by gold star member mlx)

ant

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Video added to geek channel (geek called by gold star member ant)

wow. favorited for sure.

There were no "Dark Middle Ages"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages#Modern_academic_use
e.g.
The 8th - 13th century Arabic Empire was not "dark"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh0eM4tAISQ

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by schmawy.

Awarding schmawy with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

Thanks, Sifty. I don't care what anybody says about you. You're swell.

BicycleRepairMan

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, June 9th, 2007 6:06pm PDT - promote requested by BicycleRepairMan.

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Someone with more power can fix it though...

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/4939/Carl_Sagan___A_thousand_years_of_darkness/

Unfortunately, I am not sure if it is the exact same video that was here - only that the title is the same.

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by curiousity.

Awarding Fusionaut with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by EDD.

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